PRESIDENTIAL 2021: BRAZZAVILLE DIVES INTO DARKNESS

No internet, no telephone and almost no more opponents, the Republic of Congo woke up for a vote behind closed doors this Sunday, March 21, 2021. The silence of the international community , and in particular of France more preoccupied with avoiding “an initiative against Sassou from its soil” is amnesiac of the sacrifices demanded by the strengthening of its own freedom. It was from the banks of the Seine that was orchestrated the assassination of the young Congolese democracy in the 1990s.

The health of the main challenger Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas, tested positive for covid-19, remains uncertain . It is to be feared that the cut off of internet and telephone will further complicate Kolelas’ sanitary evacuation.

Access Now, AfricTivistes, Freedom House, Sassoufit and 47 other organizations called on the authorities of the Republic of Congo not to censor the internet. It is time to sound the alarm because the Republic of Congo as the opponent Guy Brice Parfait Kolelas is in imminent danger of death because the arsenal of repression, more than 500 tons of weapons, has already been delivered.

TOTAL and Mr. Pouyanné, interfered in the electoral process by promising, as if to give their shareholders a clear conscience, in the middle of the campaign a flawed reforestation project to an ecocidal regime adept at escrology several times pinned for its addiction to deforestation.

On November 6, 2020 leaders amongst which Professor Ramin Jahanbegloo, Myroslav Marynovych, Jianli Yang, Rafał Dutkiewicz, Andreas Bummel, Tamara Adrian, Jakub Klepal and others called for Freedom in the Republic of the Congo : “The holding of free and transparent elections in the Republic of the Congo is crucial for the stability of Africa above all it is an investment by the international community for democratic renewal.”

“We Must hear this call and will not tolerate a sham election under China-Turkey interference in the Republic of the Congo.”